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extensive coal dust upon her clothes. This individual had subsequently retrieved Vera's body from the coal cellar at or shortly before dawn on 16 December and proceeded to transport her body to
Addison Road, inadvertently removing the finger bandage from his little finger as he removed his hands from beneath the child's arms. A Mrs. Margaret Key informed investigators that at approximately 6:40 a.m. on 16 December, she had observed an individual whose physical appearance fitted that of a local man named Percy Orlando Rush pushing a wheelbarrow laden with a large bundle covered with a distinctive red table-cloth with a knitted fringe walking in the direction of Addison Road.
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voluntarily hand over all samples of bandages within his home, and he had complied with what
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murderer had likely illuminated the scene via candlelight. Investigators gave strong support to the theory that the girl's body had been temporarily concealed in this cellar after her murder, then transported via wheelbarrow to the location of her subsequent discovery.
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who stated that on the morning of the discovery of Vera's body, the door to a coal shed close to Addison Road had been left unlocked and ajar, when on all other dates it would invariably have been closed and locked.
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to reside in their home, although these lodgers were always either family members or individuals known to the family. In January 1931, the Page family moved from Chapel Road,
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to death shortly after the last confirmed sighting of her alive. Her body bore superficial bruising and a welt mark located upon her neck had been inflicted via a
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